The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 96
So he prayed, and to his surprise the paper bird came into his hand.
Who acts: life, paper bird · What happens: pray, come, surprise · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, paper bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 prayed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 surprise | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bird | compound |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | life | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the paper bird | life's hand | to life's surprise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to surprise=Initial_Location into hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | surprise | life | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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